To sustain user attention and drive audience engagement, journalists and news organizations should learn to use data visualizations. Data visualizations let you explain a set of data simply with an ...

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

The best infographics are clear, easy to digest, and eye-catching. But the process of distilling data into a neat little chart, bar graph, or venn diagram usually requires pages and pages of messy ...

Infographics have become an increasingly popular data visualization tool which enable users to quickly give an overview of pretty much any topic. They rely on using images to accompany bite-sized ...

Google’s getting into the data visualization game: Yesterday, Google Labs unveiled the “Public Data Explorer,” which allows you to see animated visualizations of some of the most searched-for data ...

Modern science infographics can show everything from rising temperatures to population growth "if you know how to read them. The Best American Infographics 2013 editor Gareth Cook and neuroscientist ...

A few years ago I stumbled upon a study that tried to prove the significant difference between visual and textual information. According to this study, visual information -- when presented clearly -- ...

Linda Hofschire knew something had to be done. An analyst at Library Research Service at Colorado State Library (CSL), Hofschire says that her colleagues had been collecting school library impact ...

This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. The Vision Zero initiative began in Sweden in 1997 with the goal of eliminating fatal traffic and pedestrian accidents, and has since ...